11/18 pond fishing

Saltwater Fly-Fishing
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Had a great night with the boy flyfishing the pond. I got schooled!
Dad - 4 bream, 1 bass
Boy - 8 bream, 1 bass

But, I had my 3/4wt and had the daymaker/gollywhopper break me off, nearly yanked the rod out of my hands! Oh well :stuck_out_tongue:

The boy is starting to get his casts out to about 30 ft, pretty good!

We were using the little Wally-world surface poppers.
Good times…

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kids got it man…remember when we were that young and idealistic? when catching a fish was EVERYTHING? i would like to say that i have not grown up and am as simple minded as i was as a child…but id be lying…the truth and simplicity of the “school yard” have evaded me lately…with the mortage and the honey to -do-me list’s…i miss it all. i commend you and thank you for getting ur youngin’s into it all. its a ‘any man can catch a bass on a bait…but a fly’ syndrome that keeps me grinnin… we are slowly growing as flyfisherman, and its up to people like optiker to ‘switch’ their kin and get off the frying pan mentality and into the beauty of the life and the challenge of fly fishing that will keep us all fishing forever.
I would love to say it better, but HD Thoreau nailed it…“some men fish their entire lives without knowing that it is not fish that they are really after”

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what i meant to say was “what in the world is a Gollywhopper!?!”:smiley:

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Thanks scotty. Truth is, I loved to fish as much as him when his age, but then I got into other things, etc. When I finally got a boat about 4 yrs ago now, I fell in love with it again, and I have as much fun as him just catching anything and learning how to get better. I am definitely not jaded, or a fishing snob, at least not yet.

My oldest boy has never really got the bug for fishing, he likes catching, but not really fishing. But for some reason flyfishing is different. Its the challenge of casting, and something technique heavy. He is really exactly like me, because I am drawn to things like that too, (windsurfing, pole vaulting, golf). We all love flyfishing, and its cool that my kids “firsts” are happening at 9 and 12 and mine are at 41…Also, when I get too old, they can take me fishing :smiley:

Edit to add: Oh “gollywhopper”, is a term I got from Captn Bob Sanders from Edisto: Its when you get a big bite and you say “Golly” then you see it and say “what a whopper!”

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